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Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics WriteHELEN SWORD • From the author of Stylish Academic Writing

comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft.

• Helen Sword interviewed 100 academics worldwide about their writing background and practices and shows how they find or create the conditions to get their writing done.

• Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice:

• Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence. • Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care. • Social habits of collegiality and collaboration. • Emotional habits of positivity and pleasure. Helen Sword is Professor and Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland.

Hbk | 260pp | 9780674737709 | 2017.03 Harvard University Press | A$51.95 | NZ$58.95 210x140mm | USA

Writing Your Master’s Thesis: From A to ZenLYNN NYGAARD • Using real-world cases, student vignettes, and

reflective questions, Lynn leads you through the A to Zen of the writing process, building your confidence as well as developing your skills.

Find out how to: • Understand yourself, your audience, and your

project, so you better understand your role in communicating research.

• Choose a question and plan an appropriate design.

• Build a foundation of ethics and background research into your writing practice.

• Find your own writing (life)style. • Work with your supervisor, so you can get the best from the

relationship. • Navigate structure, arguments, and theory, for deeper critical

engagement. • Contextualize your research and maximize its impact.

Pbk | 240pp | 9781473903937 | 2017.03 Sage Publications Ltd | A$54.95 | NZ$62 UK

Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting WorldJOANNA RADIN AND EMMA KOWAL

• Extensive work was done to make the volume cohesive, and the introduction in particular does a wonderful job of introducing the topic.

• As the pace of modern life accelerates and climate change warms the planet, a common response is to preserve things by freezing them—seeds, embryos, and whole organisms. It seems that every week brings a new “cryo” fad, while industrial technologies of cooling and freezing are ever expanding their applications and market reach. This book attempts to get underneath the hype to ask how freezing alters the relationship between life and death.

• The volume, with leading authors from anthropology, history of science, medicine and technology, environmental humanities, and indigenous studies provides a methodologically diverse perspective on technology and modernity.

Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at Deakin University.Oz Contributors: Warwick Anderson - University of Sydney; Matthew Chrulew - University of New South Wales; Eben Kirskey - University of New South Wales; Deborah Bird Rose - University of New South Wales; David Turnbull - Deakin University; Thom van Dooren - University of New South Wales.

Hbk | 336pp | 9780262035859 | 2017.03 The MIT Press | A$74 | NZ$87 229x152mm | USA

Living Well Now and in the Future: Why Sustainability MattersRANDALL CURREN AND ELLEN METZGER • Cowritten by a philosopher and a geoscientist.

While everyone acknowledges that sustainability is inherently cross-disciplinary, sustained collaboration across disciplinary boundaries is remarkably rare.

• Provides a systematic and principled approach to sustainability ethics and justice. This will be especially welcome to natural and social scientists concerned with the roles of values, justice, and human well being in sustainability.

• Offers the only approach to education in sustainability grounded in a comprehensive understanding of sustainability and philosophy of education.


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ACADEMIC SKILLSGood Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide 5edPETER REDMAN AND WENDY MAPLESWriting good essays is one of the most challenging aspects of studying in the social sciences. This simple guide provides you with proven approaches and techniques to help turn you into a well-oiled, essay writing machine. Good Essay Writing demonstrates how to think critically and formulate your argument as well as offering water-tight structuring tips, referencing advice and a word on those all too familiar common worries – all brought to life through real student examples from a range of subjects. Sage Study Skills Series.“This book is very valuable for any student intending to write an academic essay. It is well structured, provides ample examples, has valuable advice and tips, and is easy to navigate.” — Dr Kamil Zwolski, Lecturer in Global Politics and Policy, University of Southampton

Pbk | 184pp | 9781473982161 | 2017.03 Sage Publications Ltd | A$38.95 | NZ$43.95 UK

Successful Academic Writing: A Complete Guide for Social and Behavioral ScientistsANNELIESE SINGH AND LAUREN LUKKARILAUsing rich examples and engaging pedagogical tools, this book equips students to master the challenges of academic writing in graduate school and beyond. The authors delve into nitty-gritty aspects of structure, style, and language, and offer a window onto the thought processes and strategies that strong writers rely on. Essential topics include how to: identify the audience for a particular piece of writing; craft a voice appropriate for a discipline-specific community of practice; compose the sections of a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research article; select the right peer-reviewed journal for submitting an article; and navigate the publication process. Readers are also guided to build vital self-coaching skills in order to stay motivated and complete projects successfully. “A true gem of a book that addresses critical aspects of academic writing that I have not seen elsewhere. In an easy-to-access, conversational style, the authors delve into the logic, content, and structure of writing for an academic or professional audience. Excellent pedagogical tools encourage readers to analyze various writing styles in order to craft their own academic voices. I highly recommend this book for both class and professional use, and will use it in my doctoral classes.” — Susan P. Robbins, PhD, LCSW, Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston

Pbk | 258pp | 9781462529391 | 2017.04 The Guilford Press | A$64 | NZ$74 235x156mm | USA

Your Human Geography Dissertation: Designing, Doing and DeliveringKIMBERLEY A PETERSAn undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project can be a stressful and complex process. Your Human Geography Dissertation breaks the task down into three helpful stages: • Designing: Deciding on your approach,

your topic and your research question, and ensuring your project is feasible.

• Doing: Situating your research and selecting the best methods for your dissertation project.

• Delivering: Dealing with data and writing up your findings. • With information and task boxes, soundbites offering student

insight and guidance, and links to online materials, this book offers a complete and accessible overview of the key skills needed to prepare, research, and write a successful human geography dissertation.

“Kim Peters has written a much needed book that will be of great value to Geography students undertaking what is often the most challenging part of their degree, the dissertation. As a Geography lecturer I have often wished that a book such as this existed. Your Human Geography Dissertation goes way beyond a standard examination of the pros and cons of different research methods, covering a range of topics from the identification of dissertation subjects and the development of research questions through gathering data and writing up. It is a readable and highly accessible text full of helpful detail, practical advice and useful examples. Thank you Kim!” — Jo Little, Professor in Geography, University of Exeter

Pbk | 264pp | 9781446295205 | 2017.03 Sage Publications Ltd | A$54.95 | NZ$63 UK

CRIMINOLOGYJuvenile Justice in Global Perspective (New in Paperback)FRANKLIN ZIMRING, MAXIMO LANGER AND DAVID TANENHAUSOffering a unique, proactive and comprehensive approach to juvenile justice, this volume brings together original contributions from some of the world’s leading voices. While American scholars may have extensive knowledge about other justice systems around the world and how adults are treated, juvenile justice systems and the plight of youth who break the law throughout the world is less often studied. This important volume fills a large gap in the study of juvenile justice by providing an unprecedented comparison of criminal justice and juvenile justice systems across the world, looking for points of comparison and policy variance that can lead to positive change. Youth, Crime, and Justice.“Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective successfully makes the point that an adequate understanding of youth justice requires the multiple comparisons—to adult systems, to other systems, to social policies—contained in this volume. It is an impressive contribution to the field.” — Anthony Doob, co-author of Justice for Girls?

Pbk | 416pp | 9781479843886 | 2017.04 NYU Press | A$56.95 | NZ$65 229x152mm | USA


DEVELOPMENTThe Barefoot Guide to Exploring the Real Work of Social ChangeTHE THE BAREFOOT GUIDE WRITERS’ COLLECTIVEThis is a book about social change practices from many countries. It contains a variety of stories, analyses, and ideas. It also has many poems and illustrations to illuminate and enhance the text. For activists, civil society leaders, practitioners and students, this is not a book of easy answers, but one of experiences, learnings and questions, all asking “What is the real work of social change?” We have not attempted to provide “best practice models”, but rather something to be learned from, to deepen our questions, and to be more thoughtful in our practice. Barefoot Guides.

Pbk | 172pp | 9781853399640 | 2016.11 Practical Action Publishing | A$36.95 | NZ$41.95 297x210mm | UK

Managing Humanitarian Relief ERIC JAMESManaging Humanitarian Relief is aimed at the relief worker who in the midst of these complex situations is putting together a programme of action to help people in extreme crisis. It provides humanitarian relief managers with a single comprehensive reference for many of the management issues they are likely to encounter in the field.

Pbk | 460pp | 9781853399039 | 2017.01 Practical Action Publishing | A$86 | NZ$98 234x156mm | UK

People’s Knowledge and Participatory Action Research: Escaping the white-walled labyrinthPEOPLE’S KNOWLEDGE EDITORIAL COLLECTIVEThe world of research run by universities and other institutions is dominated by a culture that is white, upper-middle class and male. When people from communities that have previously been excluded are asked to take part in research – even participative research — they are seldom able to do so on equal terms. Instead of being supported to draw on the expertise that they have gained from their life experience, they find themselves trapped in a ‘white-walled labyrinth’. People’s Knowledge and Participatory Action Research opens up a new realm of understanding, one that has been created by authors who are mainly non-academics, and who bring their own perspectives on the production and validation of knowledge.


Putting Knowledge to Work: Collaborating, influencing and learning for international developmentLUC MOUGEOTPutting Knowledge to Work explores the shifting power dynamics in research collaboration between donors in the Global North and recipients in the Global South; the difficult, yet mutually desired, research collaborations between Global North non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Global North universities; and strategies devised by NGOs to create and use knowledge for influencing positive social change locally, as well as for improving themselves as organizations.


Urban Governance in the Realm of Complexity: Evidence for sustainable pathwaysMEINE VAN DIJK, JURIAN EDELENBOS AND KEES VAN ROOIJENThis book discusses the role of urban information systems, public private and community partnerships and co-operation between governmental, NGOs and CBOs, and a concern for participation and self-organization of stakeholders in the urban development process and attention for emerging institutional forms for urban governance in developing countries.

Pbk | 342pp | 9781853399695 | 2017.01 Practical Action Publishing | A$72 | NZ$83 234x156mm | UK

Volunteer Voices: Key insights from international development experiencesDUNCAN MCNICHOLLVolunteer Voices is a guide for the critically minded volunteer and early career development worker. It is designed to help aspiring young change-makers engage with the complicated environment of international volunteering from a hands-on perspective that can help them to benefit and contribute as much as possible from the experience.



What Works for Africa’s Poorest: Programmes and policies for the extreme poorDAVID LAWSON AND DAVID HULMEWell-designed microfinance can help poor people improve their lives but generally such programmes do not reach the poorest. As a result, NGOs and donors have started to mount programmes explicitly targeting the extreme poor, the poorest and the ultra-poor. This book examines such initiatives and identifies ‘what works for the poorest’ in Africa.

Pbk | 282pp | 9781853398445 | 2017.02 Practical Action Publishing | A$54.95 | NZ$64 234x156mm | UK

ECONOMICS AND FINANCEBeyond the Triple Bottom Line: Eight Steps toward a Sustainable Business ModelFRANCISCO SZEKELY AND ZAHIR DOSSAMany recent books make the case for businesses to become more sustainable, but few explain the specifics. In this book, Francisco Szekely and Zahir Dossa offer a pragmatic new business model for sustainability that extends beyond the traditional framework of the triple bottom line, describing eight steps that range from exploring a vision and establishing a strategy to implementing the strategy and promoting innovation.


Days of Slaughter: Inside the Fall of Freddie Mac and Why It Could Happen AgainSUSAN GATESIn September 2008, beset by mounting losses on high-risk mortgages and mortgage securities, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation teetered on the brink of insolvency. Fearing that confidence in the housing market would collapse completely if Freddie Mac and its competitor Fannie Mae failed, the US government made the difficult decision to place the two firms into conservatorship, taking control away from shareholders. Although the taxpayer commitment of hundreds of billions was meant to stabilize the housing finance system, Freddie’s fall at the start of the financial crisis set off shockwaves around the world. In Days of Slaughter, Susan Wharton Gates, a former 19-year Freddie Mac employee and vice president of public policy, provides a vivid eyewitness account of the competing economic and political forces that led to massive losses for shareholders, investors, homeowners - and taxpayers.

Hbk | 304pp | 9781421421933 | 2017.02 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$52.95 | NZ$61 229x152mm | USA

The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It (New in Paperback)DIRK PHILIPSENIn one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. It only measures output: more cars, more accidents; more extraction, more pollution--all count as success. Sustainability and quality of life are overlooked. Losses don’t count. The world can no longer afford GDP rule--GDP ignores real development. Dirk Philipsen demonstrates how the history of GDP reveals unique opportunities to fashion smarter goals and measures. The Little Big Number explores a possible roadmap for a future that advances quality of life rather than indiscriminate growth.

Pbk | 416pp | 9780691175935 | 2017.04 Princeton University Press | A$43.95 | NZ$48.95 229x152mm | USA

Rational Investing: The Subtleties of Asset ManagementHUGUES LANGLOIS AND JACQUES LUSSIERTo the average investor, playing the market seems like a high-stakes, high-risk gamble, with success tied almost wholly to luck. In Rational Investing, the asset manager Hugues Langlois and the finance professor Jacques Lussier prove otherwise, showing how anyone can study, predict, and learn to master investing. While luck is no small component of profitable asset management, skilled investors can minimize its influence over time, reducing good and bad luck to minor computational noise.Columbia Business School Publishing.

Hbk | 240pp | 9780231177344 | 2017.02 Columbia University Press | A$72 | NZ$83 229x152mm | USA

Tap: Unlocking the Mobile EconomyANINDYA GHOSELet’s say you’re out of something, or you need something, or you want something. Then, seemingly out of the blue, an ad or an offer pops up on your phone to say that very thing is now available at the next store on your right. Did the store read your mind? No. Rather, it drew on data you had tapped into your phone. In Tap, Anindya Ghose welcomes us to the mobile marketing revolution of smartphones, smarter companies, value-seeking consumers, and personalized, curated offers. Drawing on his extensive research in the United States, Europe and Asia, and a variety of real-world examples from different industries around the globe, Ghose investigates what consumers do with their smartphones and how businesses can use knowledge of this data trail to improve their products and services.

Hbk | 232pp | 9780262036276 | 2017.03 The MIT Press | A$59.95 | NZ$69 229x152mm | USA

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Understanding Islamic Financial Services: Theory and PracticeKARIM ULLAH AND WAFI AL-KARAGHOULIUnderstanding Islamic Financial Services offers fresh insights on the Islamic Financial System. The importance of this system cannot be underestimated. Experts expect that it is likely to sustain double digit growth globally over the next few years, and demand for professionals in the area has never been higher, both in the UK and around the world. While other texts on the subject look at the basic concepts, principles, contracts and financial products used in Islamic banking and finance, Understanding Islamic Financial Services goes one step further and provides a new context, identifying four levels on which the Islamic Financial system operates: product level, institution level, market level and inter-market level.

Pbk | 288pp | 9780749480516 | 2017.04 Kogan Page | A$92 | NZ$106 234x156mm | UK

ENVIRONMENTEnvironmental Success Stories: Solving Major Ecological Problems and Confronting Climate ChangeFRANK DUNNIVANTMany books on environmental issues focus on contemporary wasteful practices and portend a gloomy future. This book is different: it delves into the most daunting ecological and environmental challenges humankind has faced and shows how scientists, citizens, and governments addressed them successfully. There is a way forward, and this book shows us how to begin the journey. This book shares the stories of the citizens, scientists, and public officials who have addressed the most challenging environmental concern we now face—climate change—and proposes promising scientific and social scientific strategies for grappling with our current ecological crises.

Pbk | 256pp | 9780231179195 | 2017.02 Columbia University Press | A$56.95 | NZ$64 229x152mm | USA

Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models for Emerging EconomiesHILLARY BROWN AND BYRON STIGGEMany emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services -- affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation, along with reliable food systems. Many of these countries cannot afford the complex and resource-intensive systems based on Western, single-sector, industrialized models. In this book, Hillary Brown and Byron Stigge propose an alternate model for planning and designing infrastructural services in the emerging market context. This new model is holistic and integrated, resilient and sustainable, economical and equitable, creating an infrastructural ecology that is more analogous to the functioning of natural ecosystems.

Pbk | 304pp | 9780262533867 | 2017.03 The MIT Press | A$56.95 | NZ$66 229x178mm | USA

Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of HumanityJEREMY SCHMIDTWater: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity, details the remarkable intellectual history of America’s water management philosophy. It shows how this philosophy shaped early twentieth-century conservation in the United States, influenced American international development programs, and ultimately shaped programs of global governance that today connect water resources to the Earth system. Schmidt demonstrates how the ways we think about water reflect specific public and societal values, and illuminates the process by which the American approach to water management came to dominate the global conversation about water. “This sweeping, inter-disciplinary book is brilliant, refreshing and bold. It asks two fundamental questions in which we should all be interested: where have the ideas of water as a `resource’ to be `managed’ for the good of society or the nation come from? And how have they driven world-wide economic development that has not infrequently done more harm than good? The answers might surprise you (spoiler alert: anthropology and philosophy had a lot to do with the formation of this paradigm). This book is perhaps most imaginative in the ways it aims to disrupt a way of thinking that has dominated the anthropocene for far too long.” —Steven C. Caton, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

Hbk | 320pp | 9781479846429 | 2017.01 NYU Press | A$66 | NZ$76 229x152mm | USA

GEOGRAPHYUnderstanding Spatial MediaROB KITCHIN, TRACEY LAURIAULT AND MATTHEW WILSONOver the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become widespread. These include mapping platforms, virtual globes, user-generated spatial databases, geodesign and architectural and planning tools, urban dashboards and citizen reporting geo-systems, augmented reality media, and locative media. Collectively these produce and mediate spatial big data and are re-shaping spatial knowledge, spatial behaviour, and spatial politics. Understanding Spatial Media brings together leading scholars from around the globe to examine these new spatial media, their attendant technologies, spatial data, and their social, economic and political effects.

Pbk | 288pp | 9781473949683 | 2017.03 Sage Publications Ltd | A$70 | NZ$81 UK


INTERNATIONAL STUDIESThe Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked WorldANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTERIn 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest of the Cold War. Now, AnneMarie Slaughter—one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers from 2009 to 2012, and the first woman to serve as director of the State Department Office of Policy Planning—applies network theory to develop a new set of strategies for the post-Cold War world. While chessboard-style competitive relationships still exist—U.S.-Iranian relations, for example—many other situations demand that we look not at individual entities but at their links to one another. We must learn to understand, shape, and build on those connections. Concise and accessible, based on real-world situations, on a lucid understanding of network science, and on a clear taxonomy of strategies, this will be a go-to resource for anyone looking for a new way to think about strategy in politics or business.“Must reading for policymakers and citizens alike. Anne-Marie Slaughter has taken on the enormous task of rethinking grand strategy in an interconnected world where government is but one of the key players. There is little doubt that an Open Order world would be more prosperous and safer. The Chessboard and the Web launches an important conversation on how to get there.” — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Hbk | 224pp | 9780300215649 | 2017.04 Yale University Press | A$41.95 | NZ$46.95 210x140mm | UK

The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign PolicyVALERIE HUDSON AND PATRICIA LEIDLHillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force for domestic and international peace. Blending history, fieldwork, theory, and policy analysis while incorporating perspectives from officials and activists on the front lines of implementation, this book is the first to thoroughly investigate the Hillary Doctrine in principle and practice.

Pbk | 456pp | 9780231164931 | 2017.02 Columbia University Press | A$44.95 | NZ$49.95 229x152mm | USA

How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950 SETH JOHNSTONToday’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to “keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.” These differences are not simply the result of the Cold War’s end, 9/11, or recent twenty-first-century developments but represent a more general pattern of adaptability first seen in the incorporation of Germany as a full member of the alliance in the early 1950s. Unlike other enduring post–World War II institutions that continue to reflect the international politics of their founding era, NATO stands out for the boldness and frequency of its transformations over the past seventy years. In this compelling book, Seth A. Johnston presents readers with a detailed examination of how NATO adapts.The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.

Pbk | 272pp | 9781421421988 | 2017.02 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$55.95 | NZ$65 229x152mm | USA

Japan’s Security Renaissance: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First CenturyANDREW OROSFor decades after World War II, Japan chose to focus on soft power and economic diplomacy alongside a close alliance with the United States, eschewing a potential leadership role in regional and global security. Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since the rise of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s military capabilities have resurged. In this analysis of Japan’s changing military policy, Andrew L. Oros shows how a gradual awakening to new security challenges has culminated in the multifaceted “security renaissance” of the past decade.Contemporary Asia in the World.

Pbk | 320pp | 9780231172615 | 2017.02 Columbia University Press | A$57.95 | NZ$66 229x152mm | USA

LAWAnthropology and Law: A Critical IntroductionMARK GOODALEAnthropology and Law provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of law in the post-Cold War era. Mark Goodale introduces the central problems of the field and builds on the legacy of its intellectual history. The book’s chapters cover a range of intersecting areas including language and law, history, justice, regulation, indigenous rights, and gender.

Pbk | 320pp | 9781479895519 | 2017.04 NYU Press | A$66 | NZ$76 229x152mm | USA

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Defaming the Dead DON HERZOGThis is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly arcane question—can you libel or slander the dead?—and develops it outward, tackling larger and larger implications, until it ends up straddling the borders between law, culture, philosophy, and the meaning of life. A full answer to this question requires legal scholar Don Herzog to consider what tort law is actually designed to protect, what differences death makes—and what differences it doesn’t—and why we value what we value. Herzog is one of those rare scholarly writers who can make the most abstract argument compelling and entertaining.


Gender, Psychology, and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal SystemCORINNE DATCHI AND JULIE ANCISWomen and girls’contact with the justice system is often influenced by gender-related assumptions and stereotypes. The justice practices of the past 40 years have been largely based on conceptual principles and assumptions—including personal theories about gender—more than scientific evidence about what works to address the specific needs of women and girls in the justice system. Because of this, women and girls have limited access to equitable justice and are increasingly caught up in outdated and harmful practices, including the net of the criminal justice system. Gender, Psychology, and Justice uses psychological research to examine the experiences of women and girls involved in the justice system. Psychology and Crime.

Pbk | 352pp | 9781479885848 | 2017.03 NYU Press | A$66 | NZ$77 229x152mm | USA

LOGISTICSOil, Gas and Chemical Logistics Management: Advanced Project Inbound Material Logistics Management & 5PLWEI LIOil, Gas and Chemical Logistics Management gives practitioners a strategic step-by-step insight into the logistics management necessary within the oil, gas and chemical industries. It is incredibly technical and clarifies a vast number of complex terms and definitions as well as looking at the process in which they can be implemented. It brings together a valuable overview across the sector.


Demand-Driven Supply Chain Management: Transformational Performance ImprovementSIMON EAGLEMany companies are moving from traditional forecasting (forecasting push) to demand-driven. Demand-driven can be applied in all supply chain configurations. It is an ‘end to end’ supply chain replenishment process. Only in the last three years or so has demand-driven begun to challenge ‘forecast push’. Demand-Driven Supply Chain Management is the ‘go-to’ source for industry supply chain/operations executives and students because it describes, in a readable but rigorous manner, the ‘what, how and why’ of the demand-driven SCM process. The key themes in the book are: what is demand-driven; why demand-driven is the correct way to manage a supply chain; how to operate a demand-driven supply chain; and how to adopt the demand-driven process in your company.


Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Principles and Practices for Sustainable Operations and Management 2ed DAVID GRANT, CHEE WONG AND ALEXANDER TRAUTRIMSSustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is the essential guide to the principles and practices of sustainable logistics operations. Based on extensive research, this book covers the whole scope of sustainable logistics. The mini case studies, with particular attention for use in a teaching context, relate the theoretical concepts to practice and what is happening ‘on the ground’.


MANAGEMENTArtificial Intelligence Marketing and Predicting Consumer Choice: An Overview of Tools and TechniquesSTEVEN STRUHLThe ability to predict consumer choice is a fundamental aspect to success for any business. In the context of artificial intelligence marketing, there are a wide array of predictive analytic techniques available to achieve this purpose, each with their own unique advantages and disadvantages. Artificial Intelligence Marketing and Predicting Consumer Choice serves to integrate these widely disparate approaches, and show the strengths, weaknesses, and best applications of each. It provides a bridge between the person who must apply or learn these problem-solving methods and the community of experts who do the actual analysis. It is also a practical and accessible guide to the many remarkable advances that have been recently made in this fascinating field.

Pbk | 256pp | 9780749479558 | 2017.04 Kogan Page | A$48.95 | NZ$54.95 234x156mm | UK

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Building the Agile Business through Digital TransformationNEIL PERKIN AND PETER ABRAHAMBuilding the Agile Business through Digital Transformation is a guide for organizational development professionals and change managers needing to better understand, implement and lead digital transformation in the workplace. It sets aside traditional thinking and outdated strategies to explain what steps need to be taken for an organization to become truly agile. It addresses how to build organizational velocity and establish iterative working, remove unnecessary process, embed innovation, map strategy to motivation and develop talent to succeed.


Case Theory in Business and Management: Reinventing Case Study ResearchEVERT GUMMESSONSetting out to dispel the argument that case study research lacks the science, theory and therefore validity of other forms of research, Evert Gummesson combines many decades of experience as both a renowned scholar and a reflective practitioner to effectively bridge the divide between case theory and how it is applied in practice. Bringing the fundamental strengths of cases to the fore, Gummesson introduces the ‘case theory’ concept as an expanded version of case study research which includes both methodology and the types of results that emerge by guiding the reader in the theoretical and philosophical underpinning and demonstrating how to translate theory to pertinent research practice that address the real and consequential issues in business and management today.

Pbk | 352pp | 9781446210628 | 2017.03 Sage Publications Ltd | A$61 | NZ$71 242x170mm | UK

Consultancy, Organizational Development and Change: A Practical Guide to Delivering ValueJULIE HODGESOrganizations are increasingly investing in consulting capabilities to understand what changes they need to make to keep up the pace with the competition and future-proof their business. Consultancy, Organizational Development and Change is a guide for students and internal and external consultants needing to develop the necessary skills to consult in organizational settings where there is a great deal of complexity. It tackles the issues posing the greatest threat to the success of the change programme, including how to adapt to rapidly shifting needs, deal with the emotional and ethical issues that arise and ensure that the managers take full ownership for the change so that ‘business as usual’ is established.


Data Strategy: How to Profit from a World of Big Data, Analytics and the Internet of ThingsBERNARD MARRData is revolutionizing the way we all do business. Every business is now a data business and needs a robust Data Strategy. However less than 0.5% of all data is ever analysed and used, offering huge potential for organisations when trying to leverage this key strategic asset. What is the value of your data and how does it generate business value? Data Strategy, by bestselling author Bernard Marr, provides a clear blueprint showing what organizations need to do to define and execute an effective plan for one of their biggest strategic assets: data.


The Operations Advantage: A Practical Guide to Making Operations WorkNIGEL SLACKThe study and practice of operations has shifted to reflect the new challenges and uncertainties of how to thrive in today’s ever-changing world. The Operations Advantage identifies the most significant challenges to the practice of operations management and gives guidance on how businesses can respond. Leaders need to link the strategic objectives of the business clearly and logically to its operation’s performance objectives. The book presents a series of ten activities that will help them to do this and therefore make operations work better, such as designing and configuring internal processes and resourcing the operations appropriately.


The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (New in Paperback)YOSSI SHEFFIIn this book, Yossi Sheffi shows why modern vulnerabilities call for innovative processes and tools for creating and embedding corporate resilience and risk management. Sheffi offers fascinating case studies that illustrate how companies have prepared for, coped with, and come out stronger following disruption - from the actions of Intel after the 2011 Japanese tsunami to the disruption in the “money supply chain” caused by the 2008 financial crisis.

Pbk | 488pp | 9780262533638 | 2017.03 The MIT Press | A$53.95 | NZ$61 229x152mm | USA

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Practical Consultancy Ethics: Professional Excellence for IT and Management ConsultantsDAVID YARDLEYPractical Consultancy Ethics approaches the subject of ethics from the individual’s perspective: the management or IT consultant who will need to make ethical decisions within their engagement. With clear-sighted identification of the ethical dilemmas that may arise at each stage of a consultancy project - from defining the problem to fit the solution, through to prioritizing competing stakeholder needs, and having access to confidential client information - and guidance on ethical and risk-reducing actions that consultants can take, the emphasis throughout is on improved decision-making.


Strategic Decision Making: Applying Behavioural Insights for Improved Organizational StrategySIMON HASLAM AND BEN SHENOYIn Strategic Decision Making, Simon Haslam and Ben Shenoy demonstrate a new model showing how leaders and managers can improve their strategic decisions in this volatile and uncertain climate. Their practical method adopts a simultaneous and integrated approach through exploration and experimentation in four phases. Each phase is explained in detail with practical recommendations. Strategic Decision Making delivers a well-rounded, practical and in-depth view of the topic whilst capitalizing on the latest thinking, encouraging the reader to make well-informed decisions even during turbulent times.


MATHSMathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation (New in Paperback)MICHAEL HARRISWhat do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers - for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications - this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century. Drawing on his personal experiences and obsessions as well as the thoughts and opinions of other mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, Michael Harris reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics, as well as its darker side. Disarmingly candid, relentlessly intelligent, and richly entertaining, Mathematics without Apologies takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life. 34 line illustrations.

Pbk | 464pp | 9780691175836 | 2017.03 Princeton University Press | A$53.95 | NZ$61 229x152mm | USA

POLITICSThe Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of SamuelMOSHE HALBERTAL AND STEPHEN HOLMESThe Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book’s anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The Beginning of Politics mines the story of Israel’s first two kings to unearth a natural history of power, providing a forceful new reading of what is arguably the first and greatest work of Western political thought.

Hbk | 296pp | 9780691174624 | 2017.04 Princeton University Press | A$53.95 | NZ$62 216x140mm | USA

Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes GRIGORE POP-ELECHES AND JOSHUA TUCKERIt has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on the institutional legacy of communism. Communism’s Shadow instead turns the focus to the individuals who inhabit post-communist countries, presenting a rigorous assessment of the legacy of communism on political attitudes. Post-communist citizens hold political, economic, and social opinions that consistently differ from individuals in other countries. Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker introduce two distinct frameworks to explain these differences, the first of which focuses on the effects of living in a post-communist country, and the second on living through communism. Princeton Studies in Political Behavior.

Pbk | 328pp | 9780691175591 | 2017.04 Princeton University Press | A$57.95 | NZ$66 229x152mm | USA

Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (New in Paperback)HELENE LANDEMOREIndividual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of democratic decision making form a cognitive system that ensures that decisions taken by the many are more likely to be right than decisions taken by the few. Democracy as a form of government is therefore valuable not only because it is legitimate and just, but also because it is smart.


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Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton (New in Paperback)HILARY GATTIEurope’s long sixteenth century - a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s - was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever more violent fervor. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe argues that this turbulent age also laid the conceptual foundations of our modern ideas about liberty, justice, and democracy. Drawing on a breadth of canonical and lesser-known writings, Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe reveals how an era stricken by war and injustice gave birth to a more enlightened world.


The New Geopolitics of Natural GasAGNIA GRIGASWe are in the midst of an energy revolution, led by the United States. As the world’s greatest producer of natural gas moves aggressively to expand its exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), America stands poised to become an energy superpower - an unanticipated development with far-reaching implications for the international order. Agnia Grigas drills deep into today’s gas markets to uncover the forces and trends transforming the geopolitics of gas.

Hbk | 360pp | 9780674971837 | 2017.03 Harvard University Press | A$66 | NZ$77 210x140mm | USA

Perception and Misperception in International Politics (New Edition)ROBERT JERVISSince its original publication in 1976, Perception and Misperception in International Politics has become a landmark book in its field, hailed by the New York Times as “the seminal statement of principles underlying political psychology.” This new edition includes an extensive preface by the author reflecting on the book’s lasting impact and legacy, particularly in the application of cognitive psychology to political decision making, and brings that analysis up to date by discussing the relevant psychological research over the past forty years. Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Pbk | 464pp | 9780691175850 | 2017.02 Princeton University Press | A$61 | NZ$70 229x152mm | USA

Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups (New in Paperback)NAUNIHAL SINGHWhile coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little empirical work on the subject. Seizing Power develops a new theory of coup dynamics and outcomes, drawing on 300 hours of interviews with coup participants and an original dataset of 471 coup attempts worldwide from 1950 to 2000. Naunihal Singh delivers a concise and empirical evaluation, arguing that understanding the dynamics of military factions is essential to predicting the success or failure of coups.

Pbk | 264pp | 9781421422565 | 2017.01 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$64 | NZ$74 229x152mm | USA

PUBLIC POLICYPublic Policy Writing That MattersDAVID CHRISINGERStudents and professionals across a variety of disciplines need to write public policy in a manner that inspires action and genuine change. You may have amazing ideas about how to improve the world, but if you aren’t able to communicate these ideas well, they simply won’t become reality. In Public Policy Writing That Matters, communications specialist David Chrisinger argues that public policy writing is most persuasive when it tells clear, concrete stories about people doing things. Combining helpful hints and cautionary tales with writing exercises and excerpts from sample policy documents, Chrisinger teaches readers to craft concise, story-driven pieces that exceed the stylistic requirements and limitations of traditional policy writing.

Pbk | 136pp | 9781421422268 | 2017.04 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$36.95 | NZ$41.95 216x140mm | USA

RESEARCHThe CIPP Evaluation Model: How to Evaluate for Improvement and AccountabilityDANIEL STUFFLEBEAM AND GUILI ZHANGThe authoritative presentation of a leading evaluation approach, this book describes the CIPP (Context, Input, Process, and Product) Model’s origin, concepts, and procedures. Unlike many models, CIPP provides for feedback throughout a program. Richly illustrated with evaluation cases, the book covers methods for engaging stakeholders; designing, budgeting, and contracting evaluations; collecting, analyzing, and reporting information; and conducting metaevaluations.

Pbk | 400pp | 9781462529230 | 2017.03 The Guilford Press | A$108 | NZ$126 235x187mm | USA


An Introduction to Fully Integrated Mixed Methods ResearchELIZABETH CREAMERAn Introduction to Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research by Elizabeth G. Creamer will help students and researchers understand how to design a fully integrated mixed methods study. The book foregrounds mixing qualitative and quantitative methods throughout the research process, from design to collection to analysis. Examples of research featured in the popular media engage readers in thinking about the ingenious ways that scholars have integrated data sources and analytical techniques. Creamer’s approach is both practical and original, rather than teaching a prescribed set of designs, so students and readers can feel confident designing their own fully integrated mixed methods studies to answer their research questions.

Pbk | 344pp | 9781483350936 | 2017.03 Sage Publications, Inc | A$101 | NZ$118 232x187mm | USA

SCIENCEAluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical PerspectiveCARL ZIMRINGBesides being the right thing to do for Mother Earth, recycling can also make money—particularly when it comes to upcycling, a zero waste practice where discarded materials are fashioned into goods of greater economic or cultural value. In Upcycling Aluminum, Carl A. Zimring explores how the metal’s abundance after World War II—coupled with the significant economic and environmental costs of smelting it from bauxite ore—led to the industrial production of valuable durable goods from salvaged aluminum.A Journal of Democracy Book.

Hbk | 216pp | 9781421421865 | 2017.03 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$71 | NZ$82 229x152mm | USA

Emmy Noether’s Wonderful Theorem 2ed (Revised and Updated Edition) DWIGHT NEUENSCHWANDER“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.” — Albert EinsteinIn Dwight E. Neuenschwander’s new edition of Emmy Noether’s Wonderful Theorem, readers will encounter an updated explanation of Noether’s “first” theorem. The discussion of local gauge invariance has been expanded into a detailed presentation of the motivation, proof, and applications of the “second” theorem, including Noether’s resolution of concerns about general relativity. Other refinements in the new edition include an enlarged biography of Emmy Noether’s life and work, parallels drawn between the present approach and Noether’s original 1918 paper, and a summary of the logic behind Noether’s theorem.

Pbk | 328pp | 9781421422671 | 2017.04 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$56.95 | NZ$66 229x152mm | USA

Genes, Brains, and Human Potential: The Science and Ideology of IntelligenceKEN RICHARDSONFor countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and fundamentally unequal. The social order, they have been assured, is arranged by powers beyond their control. Yet scientists are now waking up to the influence of ideology on research and its interpretation. In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claims of reductionists. He shows how ideology, more than pure science, has come to dominate our institutions, especially education, encouraging fatalism about the development of human intelligence among individuals and societies.

Hbk | 384pp | 9780231178426 | 2017.02 Columbia University Press | A$67 | NZ$78 229x152mm | USA

The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold WarALEXANDER MACDONALDOver the past half-century there has been a rapid expansion in commerce off the surface of our planet. Nations and corporations have placed hundreds of satellites that provide billions of dollars’ worth of communications, scientific, global positioning, and commercial services, while construction has been completed on humanity’s ninth and largest space station. This book examines the economic history of American space exploration and spaceflight, from early astronomical observatories to the International Space Station, and argues that the contemporary rise of private-sector efforts is the reemergence of a long-run trend and not a new phenomenon.


Looking Inside the Brain: The Power of Neuroimaging (New in Paperback)DENIS LE BIHANIt is now possible to witness human brain activity while we are talking, reading, or thinking, thanks to revolutionary neuroimaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These groundbreaking advances have opened infinite fields of investigation - into such areas as musical perception, brain development in utero, and faulty brain connections leading to psychiatric disorders - and have raised unprecedented ethical issues. In Looking Inside the Brain, one of the leading pioneers of the field, Denis Le Bihan, offers an engaging account of the sophisticated interdisciplinary research in physics, neuroscience, and medicine that have led to the remarkable neuroimaging methods that give us a detailed look into the human brain.


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North Atlantic Right Whales: From Hunted Leviathan to Conservation IconDAVID LAISTIn the cold waters of the unforgiving North Atlantic Ocean, some of the heartiest humans of medieval days ventured out in search of whales. As the desire for whales grew through the centuries, people on both sides of the North Atlantic became increasingly dependent on whale oil and other cetacean products. Eventually, whaling grew ever more sophisticated, evolving into fleets of skilled huntsmen and leading to the collapse of what was once a seemingly inexhaustible supply of large cetaceans. Central in this struggle for existence was one species, the North Atlantic right whale. David W. Laist, a major player in right whale conservation, now provides the first complete history of the North Atlantic right whale, from its earliest encounters with humans to its close brush with extinction to its present precarious, yet hopeful, status as a conservation icon.


Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the Two New SciencesRENEE RAPHAELIn 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became the foundations of mechanical engineering and physics, this book is often depicted as the definitive expression of Galileo’s purportedly modern scientific agenda. In Reading Galileo, Renée Raphael offers a new interpretation of Two New Sciences which argues instead that the work embodied no such coherent canonical vision. Raphael alleges that it was written—and originally read—as the eclectic product of the types of discursive textual analysis and meandering descriptive practices Galileo professed to reject in favor of more qualitative scholarship.


The Skeleton Revealed: An Illustrated Tour of the VertebratesSTEVE HUSKEYThe vertebrate skeleton is one of nature’s most amazing feats. Composed of cartilage and bone, it forms the supportive structure for the remaining aspects of our anatomy. Stripped of skin, we can see the body’s fascinating underlying architecture. In this one-of-a-kind book, biologist and skeletal reconstructionist Steve Huskey lays bare the vertebrate skeleton, providing a guided tour of the nuanced differences among the many featured vertebrate species. Using his own skeletal preparations, which the author has spent decades assembling, Huskey helps us understand why animals live the way they do. Each page of The Skeleton Revealed reveals not only the elegance of each skeleton, but also the natural history story the skeleton tells. Come along—let’s take a voyage through the boneyard.


TOURISMHandbook of LGBT Tourism and Hospitality: A Guide for Business PracticeJEFF GUARACINO AND ED SALVATOTo research this book, the authors traveled to six continents, interviewed nearly a hundred industry experts, and analyzed multiple emerging trends among LGBT travelers. The Handbook of LGBT Tourism and Hospitality is an easy-to-read, practical, and relevant guidebook with a simple goal: to help marketing professionals, business owners, and allied professionals compete in the increasingly competitive global LGBT travel and hospitality industry.

Pbk | 250pp | 9781939594174 | 2017.02 Harrington Park Press, LLC | A$79 | NZ$93 229x152mm | USA

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